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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
VOL. VI.
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
On Monday, the house in committee of
the whole, proceeded to consider the bill
appropriating $1,500,000 for the erection
of three United States prisons, and for
the imprisonment of United States pris
oners. The bill was reported favorably
to the house and was passed, yeas 117,
nays 104.
Colonel Qates, direct of Alabama, bill when is preparing it
to meet the tax comes
over from the senate. He is going to tack
the cotton tax refunding bill to it, and
demand a vote upon that first. Then he
is going to add another amendment,
which is of the utmost importance to
every section of the south. It is to allow
the people of the south to go before the
court of claims and establish their right
to the $10,000,000 in the treasury, which
belongs to individual citizens of the
south, and which is tlic proceeds from the
sale of captured and abandoned property.
Mr. Barnes introduced three important
bills for refund Georgia on Monday. The collected first
was to the cotton tax
between 1863 and 3868. Another is to
make the arsenal at Augusta a manufac
tory of munitions of war. His third bill
appropriates $50,000 to improve the Sa
vannah, between Trotter shoals and Au
gusta, and $100,000 to improve it be
tween Augusta and Savannah.
The house committee on territories on
Monday considered the Oklahoma terri
tory bill, anil will perfect the measure and
report it to the house by the end of the
week. A hot contest was made over ex
tending the laws of some one of the
states over the proposed new territory.
The probabilities are that the laws of
Missouri or California will be adopted,
with the chances in favor of the latter.
Mr. Gorman, on Tuesday introduced
in the senate, a bill improvements making appropria- of the
harbors tions for continuing Norfolk, Charleston and Savan
at
nah. The bill makes the following harbor ap
propriations: For $457,000; improving the S.
at Norfolk, Va., Charleston,
C., $750,000; and Savannah, Ga., $500,
000 .
For utter wildness, the scene in the
house on Wednesday lnts never been
equaled. Pandemonium reigned wild supreme. with
Democratic members went ex
citement and anger, and Speaker Reed
was denounced iir'thc strongest terms.
Just after the house met, a motion was
made to take up the Smitli-Jackson con
tested election case. question Judge considera- Crisp, of
Georgia, raised the of
tion, and an aye and no vote was taken.
The democrats, upon the advice of Judge
Crisp, refused to vote. However, Messrs.
Cowles, Buckalew and Covert voted
by mistake. All three asked to withdraw
their votes before the vote wasennounced,
but the speaker refused to recognize them.
When the vote was announced, it was
161 ayes and 3 noes. “No quorum” was
called, when Mr. Reed proceeded he to an
nounce the names of members saw
present who had refused to vote,
and directed the clerk to record
them n the journal ns present.
A loud shout of approval went up from
the Republican side, and at the same in
stant every Democrat was on his feet
protesting. Just imagine filled with the scene!
A great hall rep
resentatives; galleries all around packed
aud jammed with people; every mem
ber on the floor upon his feet; the
mass of men on one side jeering
and applauding; an equal number on
the other angered aud enraged, presiding Jink
ing their lists at the
officer, denouncing his decisions, and yell
ing in derision: “Czar, czar, dictator,
dictator, revolution. ” From the republi
can side came back the shout: “Listen to
the wild rebel yell!” But nothing would stop
the confusion. Members jumped up
on their seats, threw papers and books iu
the air, and shook their would fists at each other
until it seemed there be a veritable
riot.
The wild scenes of Wednesday were
re-enacted on Thursday with even more
vigor. The fight opened on the approval
of the journal, when many democrats
called for recognition: which speaker
Heed refused to hear, He refused to en
terrain an appeal. The battle then opened.
“I denounce it,” thundered Mr. Bland, as
he ran down the aisle, “as an outrage,
and I denounce you,” shaking his fist
at the speaker, “as an imfamous tyrant.”
The Democrats arose from their seats.
jumped into chairs, and called wildly in
derision. The galleries joined them,
while from the Republieen side came
hisses. It was the w ildest of wild scenes.
NOTES.
The house committee on rivers and har
bors has begun the preparation of the
appropriation bill.
According to the schedule, the house
committee on elections. Tuesday, took up
the Maryland contested election case of
Mudd versus Compton.
The house committee on public lands
has ordered a favorable report on the bill
to grant certain public lands to the city of
Jacksonville, Ha., for park purpose,.
The secretary of the treasury has
awarded the contract for the construction
of a public building at Birmingham. Ala.,
to McCarthy & Baldwin, of IV ashington,
at $76,034.
The senate has confirmed the following
nominations: United States Attorney,
Thomas R. Borland, eastern district of
Virginia; M. D. Wickersham. southern
district of Alabama.
The department of justice is trying to
discover the whereabouts of Franz, the
victim of the recent alleged outrage his at
Aberdeen, Miss., with a view of ex
amination in regard to that affair.
BLACKSHKAR, GA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1890.
Mr. Clements, of Georgia,on Thursday,
received a letter from the secretary of the
treasury, saying he would in a day or
two, transmit to Congress a letter asking
that the $35,000 due the state incorporated of Georgia,
on the Trezevant claim, be
in the deficiency bill.
There is much complaint about the ab
sentees on the Democratic side of the
house. The Democratic assistant door
keeper, whose duty it is to keep he a quorum had
in that wing, remarked that the Georgia, no
er mplaint to make against delegations. They
Texas, and Arkansas
were constantly on duty.
The secretary of the treasury, on
Wednesday, issued a second call on the
national bank depositories for a reduction
of public balances held hv them, to be
paid on or before March 1, 1890. The
call is for about the same amount as the
first call, except that banks having asked but
small amounts to transfer have been
for the full amount in order to close out
the transaction.
Mr. Dorsey, on Tuesday, from the
committee on banking and currency, issue re
ported a bill to provide for the of
circulating notes to national banking as
sociations. He explained that the object
of the bill was to permit banks to issue
notes to the extent" of 100 per cent, of the
par value of the bonds deposited, provided. instead If
of ninety per cent, as now
the bonds bill to became the amount a law, of a bank $100,000 depositing could
ssue notes to the same amount less live
per cent, left as a reserve.
The formal recognition of the United
States of Brazil by this government was
completed Wednesday afternoon, credentials when
the president G. Deamaral received Yalente, the the of
Seuor J. new
minister accredited by the credentials provisional of
government, and also the
Senor Salvador Mendonca, as envoy ex
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary
on a special mission to the United States.
The ceremonies were marked by great
cordiality. Secretary Blaine presented
the two ministers and they, iu turn, pre
sented their secretaries.
The senate on Wednesday confirmed
the nominations as district attorneys of C.
H, Peck, southern district of Mississippi,
and Charles A. Cooke, eastern district of
North Carolina; register land office, Ju
lian II. Bingham, Montgomery, Ala.
Postmasters: South Carolina, J. R. Moss,
Henderson; S. H. Vick, Wilson; Vir
ginia, A. M. Allan, Culpepper; Stetb
Balling, Petersburg; T. R. Campbell,
Luray; R. S. Dudley, Pulaski City; C.
D. Foster, Fredericksburg; T. H. Gor
don, Newport News; Ambrose II. Lind
say, Portsmouth; F. L. Shade, Norfolk;
D. J. Taylor, Pocohontas; Mrs. Mary H.
Long, Charlottsville; A. S. Asberry,
Roanoke; J. 11. Blunt, Ashland.
The president on Thursday sent to the
so inte the following nominations:
William H. Taaf, of Ohio, to be solicitor
general; Robert Adams, Jr., of Pennsyl
vania, now accredited envoy extraordina
ry and minister plenipotentiary to the
empire of Brazil, to be envoy extraordina
ry and minister plenipotentiary to the
United States of Brazil. Postmasters—
Charles L. Pritchard, Front Royal, Va.;
Lewis P. Summers, Abington, Va.;
Charles Guirkin, Elizabeth City, N. C .;
George T. Hammer, Bristol, Tenn.;
James W. Lee, Aberdeen, Miss.; Edmund
II. Thompson, Wesson, Miss.; William
F. Elgin, Corinth, Miss.; II. II. Harring- Perdue,
ton, West Point, Miss.; Tillary Garrison,
Greenville, Ala.; Frederick A.
Palatka, Fla.
NOW ’TIS ICE.
THE SNOW ON TJIE PACIFIC RAILROAD HAS
BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO ICE.
A dispatch officials from San Francisco, says:
Railroad at Sacramento suc
ceeded in having communication for a
short time, office Monday night, with the
Truckee on the eastern slope of the
Sierra mountains, where it was learned
that the snow' was sixteen feet deep on
the track between that place and the
station five miles west of there. The late
rains followed by freezing weather, had
transformed this into ice, which will have
to be chopped understood out and shoveled away railroad by
hand. It is that the
company has endeavored to secure tele
graphic communication with Reno in
order that a few at least of the west
bound trains that are there can he
ordered back to Ogden and their
passengers transferred to the South
ern route, The situation remains
the same on the road to Oregon.
The water in the streams and rivers of
California is receding, but in some places
slow ly. From Colusa, in the western part
of Sacramento valley, reports come that
for miles north and south of there, farms
are covered with water to the depth of
from two to six feet. The loss through
out the state by the flood cannot be even
approximately estimated at this time.
THE PRICE TOO LOW.
A STEAMSHIP COMPANY REFUSES TO CARRY
UNCLE SAM'S MAIL.
A ^tch , of , Tuesday _ from San _ _ Iran
.
™ jt&Uj f ,£ L!£lan<i without cam £
g gtatea maj , fw the nort
w ich had accumulated here in a great
volume, owing to the complete railroad
blockade. It appears that the steamer
Columbia, which sailed for Portland last
charged the United States govt-m
mtnt $1 per mail bag, but the gov6rn
ment only offered thirty cents per
bag for mail to go by Santa refused. Rosa.
which the steamship company British
TEe company cites that the gov
eminent pays this American line $40 per
mail bag for carrying mails from this port
to Victoria, and that when the home gov
ernment cut the rate to 50 cents they de
clined. Two weeks' mail for the north
remained here, and the situation from a i
commercial standpoint is serious.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WIIIQU ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON’S and dixon’s line.
The • ‘la grippe” has made its appear
ance in Atlanta, Ga.
New Englund capitalists are to assist
the citizens of Aberdeen, Miss., iu build
ing a cotton factory.
Colonel John Mason Brown, one of the
most prominent lawyers iu Kentucky, died
in Louisville, Wednesday.
H. R. Anderson & Co., dealers in dry
goods, Norfolk, Va., made a deed of
trust Monday. Liabilities amounted to
$42,000.
A cow on the track threw a train off,
at Seymour, La., and thirteen cars were
wrecked, two men killed and two others
seriously injured.
A bill was presented in the Virginia land in
legislature Tuesday ceding certaiu
Alexandria and Fairfax counties to th«
United States for an avenue to Mount
Vernon.
A disastrous fire broke out at Sumter,
3. C., Tuesday morning. The building
of P. Monoglian, dry goods, Durant <&
Belitzer, furniture, aud the Peoples’ bank
were burned.
A very fatal epidemic, strongly resem
bling meningitis, is raging in the western
part of Cook county, Texas. Patients, in
many cases, die in a few hour's ufter tak
ing the disease.
The city council of New Orleans has
adoptod an ordinance against prize under fight
ing, but permitting glove contests, organized
the management of regularly
athletic clubs.
A dispatch of Monday says: Colonel
L. L. Polk, president of the National
Farmers’ and Laborers’ union, is at Ral
eigh, N. C., and is very sick. Some of
his friends speak of his condition as se
rious.
Mrs. Enoch Ensley, on Thursday after
noon lightod the fires of the Henrietta
Ensley furnace, at Sheffield, Ala. It is
one of the best built and equipped of plants
in the South; has a rated capacity one
hundred and twenty-five tous daily.
Governor Taylor will legislature call a special for Feb- ses
sion of the Tennessee
ruary 15th. Among the subjects to roail be
embraced ure the election, relieving better the
laws and some means of
manufacturing industries of the double
taxation imposed by the present laws.
The Mississippi senate spent its entire
session Thursday in the discussion of Sen
ator Wilson’s anti-trust bill, which passed
by a vote of 23 to 10. It is very sweep
ing in its provisions and strikes from the
shoulder against combines of all kinds,
designed to control values by fastidious
methods.
The program for the southern trip of
the Pan-American congress has not yet
been made out, but they will, perhaps, of
leave Washington about the middle
February. A number of the delegates
have expressed a desire to see the large
cotton mills at Augusta, Ga., arid that is
certain to he one of the first southern
points visited.
There are in Florida 10,000 orange
growers. The acreage is 100,000 and the
capital invested is from $60,000,000 to
$75,000,000. Three seasons ago there
were produced 1,250,000 boxes; two sea
sons ago, 2,100,000, and the lust season
about 2,500,000 .boxes. It is estimated
that the crop of 1890 will be over 4,000,-
700.
The house of representatives, in session
at Jackson, Miss., by a vote calling of 62 consti- to 41,
passed a bill on Tuesday a
tutional convention to meet in that city
August 12th next. It is provided said that
the constitution submitted adopted by the people conven- for
tion shall be to
ratification or rejection.
17ie Sharj) Rifles, of Lexington, Ky.,
have received orders to*be ready to march
to Harlan county. The occasion is the
apprehension of trouble there when the
circuit court opens. The legislature has
ordered an investigation into the troubles
in that county, and it will probably be
made while the troups are there.
A strike was inaugurated mill at the Bir
mingham, Ala., rolling on Monday,
which promises to be a long and bitter
one before the trouble is adjusted. Over
one thousand men, including helpers, are
employed in the mill, and and they will all shut be
thrown out of wp/k, the mill
down. The strike was caused by the men
trying to get the mill into the Amalga
mated association, to which the managers
objected.
The resolution adopted by the execu
tive committee of the chamber of com
merce, a few days ago, indorsing the
measure now before congress to pay ton
nage subsidies to American built ships,
has caused considerable excitement at
Charleston, S. C. It is doubtful if the
state's representatives in congress will and
accede to the request made .by them,
support the measure. The tendency of
public opinion in that city and the state
of South Carolina, is opposed to subsidies
of ail kinds.
THE EIGHT HOUR QUESTION
A MASS MEETING FOR ITS AGITATION TO BE
HELD IN MAY.
Washington’s birthday is the last day,
fixed by the St. Louis convention, of the
American Federation of Labor for the
holding of simultaneous mass meetings eight-boar V.
agitate the enforcement of the
system on May 1. In a circular to the
various unions, President Gompers, of the
Federation, appeals for voluntary contri
butions in aid of a fund for the agitation
of the question between .this and Mat 1.
TRADE REVIEW.
COLDER WEATI1KH MAKES THE CONDITION
OK BUSINESS MOKE FAVORABLE.
R. G. Dunn A Co.’s review of trude
for the week ending Jan. 25th, says:
Business has a decidedly more favorable
appearance. Colder weather has brought
a general increase of activity and im
provement bursement iu collections. The bonds heavy dis
brought by the treasury for have
easier money markets, anil sev
eral troublesome labor controversies have
been adjusted. The prevailing sickness,
though seriously interrupting trade anil
industry in many quarters, is distinctly
abating at the east, The official state
went of the iron and steel association is
particularly gratifying, because it shows
that contrary to the general impression,
unsold socks in the hands of makers, and
the warrant company did not increase
during 1889, but actually decreased 16,-
300 tous. The production was 7,004,525
tons against 0,480,788 in the previous
year. sumption Adding imports the total con- will
of pig iron in this country
probably 7,750,000 prove to have been in about
tons against 0,088,744 1888.
A gain of more tnnn a million tons in the
year over the largest consumption explains ever the
previously known, fairly
advancing precedented prices production. in the face of the un
THE WOOLEN BUSINESS.
has been little improved for all grades by
the colder weather and fairly active for
cheaper cassiniers and worsted with
some gain in heavier woolens, Cotton
goods move fairly at firm prices, but dis- the
rise In material begins to cause some
turbance. Speculation in cotton has marked
up the price half a cent with sales for the
week of 1,100,000 bales and receipts for
the week slightly fall behind, while ex
ports slightly exceed last year’s. show Except
in unhealthy cotton the speculative though markets here no
activity, The money decrease
has been decidedly easier.
of $4,000,000 in cash held by the treas
ury, and the rate for money on call has
declined to 8$ per oont. Foreign ex
change is also a shade lower at 4.80, and
increasing gold reserves at the banks of
England and France foreign give trade, more confi- im
dence. In the some
provement is observed in exports at New
York, which fall only six per cent, below
last year’s for January thus far, while the
decrease in imports is seventeen per cent.
But the exports of wheat have been de
cidedly small since the recent rise, and
flour shipments are light, while even corn
'•xports appear to fall behind those of last
year. Reports from other cities are gen
erally more satisfactory for the week.
Most reports note an Business improvement in
weather and in trade. failures
occurring throughout the country in the
last week, number for the United States,
295; Canada, 43; total, 838; against 330
last week.
ADVICE TO ALLIANCEMEN.
THEY ARE DIRECTED TO READ THE NEWS
FAKERS AND KEEK ROUTED.
The president of the Aiken, 8. C.,
Central Alliance Club, and one of Ai
ken county’s most successful planters,
gives the following advice to Alliance
men: “i do,sue to rail the attention ol
Alliancemen to a resolution adopted by
the National Alliance at St. Louis. This
resolution sets forth, as a reason for our
financial troubles, the pernicious which hanking
system of our government, is run
almost exclusively in the interest of capi
talists and manufacturers, enabling them
to control the volume of currency at the
time when our crops are corning purchasing into mar
ket, thereby increasing decreasing the the
power of money and value
of agricultural products, the toil making and anxiety the
profits arising from of
of the year’s labor go into the pockets
those who have not labored for them.'
Now the plan set forth in the St. Louis
convention is designed to meet and over
come this evil, and also to serve as a
basis of union and create a concert of ac
tion which will wipe out sec
tional animosities and cement the
interest of the whole country.
The fanners and wage earners are greatly
in the majority in this country, and it is
only necessary for them to know aud un
derstand their rights, to have them se
cured, and we should see to it that our
senators and representatives enact such
laws as will give us ample protection. expressed
We frequently hear the fear
that the Alliance will run into politics,
putting good men iri office, who understand
We hope it will, at least to the extent of
our wants and will enact such laws as we
need. In this age of newspapers and
telegraphy any one who remains in igno
rance of siriel indifferent to the financial
and industrial questions of of the the
day cannot be, in the true sense
word, a good citizen, but is his guilty of a
culpable neglect of duty self. to Not country, that
his family and to his own
we would have every man a crossroad
politician, far from it, hut we would have
one take an intelligent interest in ail
questions which affect our well-being, and
in order to do so we must read the papers.
They are cheap and efficient educators,
in their columns ai! topics of importance
are discussed and dissected, and the care
ful and thoughtful reader is not likely to
be duped or made a pliant tool of by de
signing men.”
A MEMORIAL YEAR.
10,157 PEOPLE KILLED 1869. BY ACCIDENTS IN
THE TEAK
During the yea ar 1889, the loss of life
by accidents in i this country, as tele
graphed to newspapers, was as follows:
Drowning, 5,705; fires, 380: cyclones
and storms, 163; explosions, 349; Mines,
308; falling buildings. 69; lightning, 215;
Total, 7,719. The killed in railroad ac
indent* wo* 2,438.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CARLE.
THINGS THAT UAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLfiD
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Ex-Governor Bross, of Illinois, for a
long time an editorial writer on the Chi
cago Tribune, died in that city Monday
night.
In the New York assembly, on Tues
day, debate the world’s fair hill passed without
or amendment. One negative
vote being east.
Her majesty’s theatre, London, Eng
land, has been closed. Four hundred
persons are thrown out of employment by
the closing of the house.
fortune Mr. Forepaugh’s estimated ago ivas 68. He leaves He
a at $1,000,000.
leaves a wife and one son, Adam, jr., who
will succeed to his circus property.
The czar has declined to act as arbitra
tor between Holland and France in their
dispute regarding the boundary between
French Guiana and Dutch Guiana.
On Wednesday Lucia Zaretta, the Mex
ican midget, said to ho the smallest hu
man blockaded being in the world, died a passenger Cali- on a
fornia. train, at Truckee,
A Lebanon, Mo., special says: Mrs.
Mary Boganz and soil, postmistress and
assistant at Pnrtlow, were arrested Tues
day by Postoffice Inspector McClure for
robbing mails.
Hurricanes continue in northwest and
central Germany. Much damage lias
been done to forests in these sections. A
heavy snow storm prevails in the Er/.e
gibrge mountains.
A dispatch from New York, says: The
Cunard steamer Bothnia was sighted oil
Sandy Hook Thursday morning. Miss
Bisland, competitor of Nellie Bly, in the
race around the world, is on hoard.
R. A. Corrigan, of Kansas City, has
bought the outfit of the New York
Graphic, the illustrated paper that failed
recently, lie. will resume its publication will be,
as an afternoon paper, Imt it not
illustrated.
The United States steamer Enterprise,
having on board the remains of minister George
11. Pendleton, late United States for
to Germany, sailed from Dartmouth
Now York Monday, but was compelled to
return, owing to the weather.
A New York dispatch says: The Cap
tain of the steamer Laplace, from Rio Ja
neiro, reports that forty sailors who,
while iiiHoxicutcd, had shouted in the
streets, “Long live the emperor,” were
executed secretly in prison at Rio.
The residence of Father Flcckmyer, at
Mansfield, Pa., was badly damaged
Thursday by the in explosion of a dynamite priest
cartridge placed undoubtedly the cellar. The of
says it was the work an
anarchist.
At. a Portuguese meeting, held at Rio
Janiero, Brazil, on Tuesday, with it the was Eng- re
solved lish to suspend business send telegram
Lisbon, people, stating and that to members a of the col- to
ony there are prepared to make any sac
rifice for their native country.
The Cologne published Gazette at Berlin, on
Thursday, an interview of its
correspondent at Lihson with I'imcntulu,
Portuguese prime minisiter. lie said that
Portugal was preparing an appeal to the
powers, including Great Britain, based on
the provisions of the Berlin Congo treuty.
Out of the 211 presbyteries in the
United States, 47 have thus far voted on
the question of revision of the West
minster confession. Of these, 35 have
voted in favor of and 12 against revision.
Most of the votes for revision are in the
west; most of those against it are in the
east.
A dispatch from Baltimore says the
strike and consequent lockout of Green
glass blowers lias ended. Fire was started
in the furnaces Wednesday, and the
men w ill return to work. The agreement
with the manufacturers which was enter
ed into, is entirely satisfactory to the em
ployes.
A dispatch from Punxsutawney, Pa.,
says: The sheriff evicted nineteen fami
lies of striking coal miners at Walston
ind Adrian Monday, arid seven on Satur Thc
day. There was no excitement,
miners did not seem at all discouraged
by the wholesale evictions, and accept
the situation cheerfully.
Arrangements are being made at New
York to give the Rev. l)r. Talrnagean en
ihusiastic reception on his return from
it broad. Several tugs have been char
tered to convey the prominent members
of his church nisi his most intimate friend?
down the hay to meet hint. There will
he a banquet apd perhaps some fireworks.
Dr. W. If. Bradley, manager of tin
weekly edition of the Philadelphia Prem,
on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the em
bezzlement of money given him to buy
stamps for the mailing department of that
paper, 'flie amount of his stealings i
placed between $8,000 and $9,000. The
doctor was sentenced to five years and six
months in the penitentiary.
The world's fair committee of the house
held a long session Tuesday and com
pleted the draft of the world’s fair Hill,
which it will report to the full committee.
The first section adopted by provides subscription. for the
raising of capital fixes stock the of the
Another section amount
paid ui) subscriptions, which must lie
in hand before the eommiss on begins
work, at not lesst han $5,000,000.
Fire broke out at Kittery navy yard at
Portsmouth. N. II., Monday morning.
Buildings No9. 45 and 46, with contents,
were entirely destroyed. planing No. machinery, 45 was
full of sawing and
and 46 was a ship fitting shop. Among
the property destroyed was trie furniture
NO 18
of the .Tuuiata, now under repair, and
part of the furniture of the Lancaster,
mul a large amount of stores. The loss
aggregates a little over $100,000, accord
ing to appraisement; no insurance.
A GREAT RACE.
CIRCLING THE GLOBE IN SEVENTY-TWO
DAYS AND SIX HOURS.
Last November the New York World
and the Cosmopolitan each Magazine, of lady the
same city’, sent out one of their
correspondents for a tour around the
world. Besides being atrip in the inter
est of the papers named, it was in reality
a race between the two young ladies, and
the time of starting been and their progrese
over the world has minutely noted
from the day of their embarkation. Miss
Nellie lily represented the World, and
Mrs. Kate Bislaml the Cosmopolitan
Magazine. Miss Bly reached New York
Saturday at 3.40 l). eleven in., minutes being just in cir- 72
days, six globe, hours anil thus breaking all previous
cling the lily’s trip from Fran
records. Miss San
cisco to New York was most exciting and
attracted wide spread attention. All along
the route she was received with regular
ovations, and given every attention.
At New York Miss Bly received a most
royal welcome. The moment of her arrival
was heralded over the city by the firing
of cannon and large delegations of citizens
congregated at the station to meet her.
In fact, all New York accorded a grand
ovation to the plucky young lady who,
alone and unattended, accomplished the
marvelous feat of breaking the record for
fast, traveling.
Miss Bisland, at last accounts, was still
on 111 “) ocean, homeward hound.
A SOCIALIST MEETING.
RESOLUTIONS PASSED DECLARING THEIH
rOI.ICY ANTAGONIZING IlKIUl MOST.
At n meeting of socialists in Waverly
hull, Chicago, on Sunday, resolutions
were adopted, railing attention to the
declaration of the socialist leader, Herr
Hebei, in the German rcichstag, on Sat
urday. The statement of Hebei was that
the disappearance of anarchism from
Germany was due to the efforts of the so
cialists, and the government had inter
ested itself iu elforts to support an an
archist movement for the purpose of
confounding its net ion and declarations
with socialism, and thus discrediting the
latter, aud that Herr Most's Friehert was
the product of the secret police.
The resolutions concluded as follows f
“We hereby emphasize United the necessity giving he«4 o
socialists in the States
to this declaration of the policy and prin- this
ciples of German socialism; that in
country dynamite agitation has no
justification whatever, and its ad
vocates—the Mosts aud the Dei,urns—•
should be recognized and t reated as agents
of despotism, ami riot as reformers, and
antagonism between socialism and their
reactionary agitation be kept ns well de
fined aud aggressive, as in Germany.”
A FATAL BLAST
AN EXCLUSION 1IUHLS To DEATH THREE .MEN
AND FATALLY WOINDH FOUR OTHERS.
A dispatch from Banbury, Pa., says;
A gang of Italians, Poles and Hungarians
employed in widening the road bed of the
Sliamoken, Hunhury and Lewisbnrg rail
road from u single to a double track
road, were at work Tuesday in a cut ncai
Puxiuos, where binsling rock was nccessa*
iy. Shortly before noon three blasts wore
set and the gang retired to await the ex
plosion. Unknown to them only two 6f
the blasts had exploded and the men had
gone hack into the cut and were at work
shoveling away the dirt and broken rock
when the third blast exploded, and the
men were hurled iu all directions. One
of them was picked up dead. Two oth
ers have since been dug out of. the rock
dead, and still another is supposed to he
buried, dead, of cour-e. Four men were
so badly crushed tin:, will orobably die.
THE ANGRY ATLANTIC.
HEAVY SEAS DAMAGING VI El.8 — THIRTY
PEOPLE DROWNED.
The Cunard s tinnier Cephalonia, from
Boston, January 18th, for Liverpool, ar
rived at Queenstown Monday. During
the passage she encountered a gale that
was so severe that the pa -ingcrs were
kept below for two days, it being feared
that if they were permitted above decks
they would be carried away by the seas
that came aboard....The British ship
Loch Moidart, from Pizagua. November
2d, for Hamburg, is ashore at Callantsoog,
Holland. Thirty of her crew were wash
ed overboard after she struck, and all per
ished. .. .The British ship Janet Cowan,
liefore reported having returned to Ply
mouth, is in distress. She lost a number
of sails when oil the isle of Wight last
Thursday. Five of her crew were lost.
Although the ship was almost dismasted,
the remainder of the crew succeeded in
navigating her to Plymouth.
WANT A CHANGE.
FARMERS ASKING THAT THE GOVERNMENT
take charge of new York's canals.
The Farmers’ Club of Onondaga county, of
Sew York, passed resolutions in favor
“a fair arrangement whereby the general and
governrn* nt hull take the control
management of the Brie and Oswego ca
nals of New York.” The preamble de
clares that those who are taxed for the
lupport of the canals do not receive ade
quate benefits therefrom, while the great
west and liorthwcst are largely benefitted
beyond the benefits derived by the state
:n the transportation of their cereals and
>ther bulky merchandise through the Ca
lais.